A TV of a pufferfish deflating has die viral , largely because it ’s really , really cool to watch , but also because everyone seems to have the same misconception about these wonderful fish .

These   strange creatures can billow themselves to be impressively large when jeopardize , almost doubling their original size . This make them much more difficult to feed , especially in mintage that   have sharp-worded spines   that show through the skin when they are inflated .

So far , so cool . However , the reason that this particular telecasting has gone viral is that everyone seems to be under the misconception that pufferfish amplify themselves with air , like a balloon .

The initial telecasting , showing a pufferfish letting out a lot of water as it deflate , drew a lot of attention , but it went viral over the weekend because literally everybody was under the feeling that pufferfish were somehow filling themselves up with air .

Clara   was not the only one with that impression . away from the 130,000 people retweeting her , there were others who made the same admission .

In fact , it seems that no matter how many times the video gets send , hoi polloi are shocked to memorise that blowfish are n’t make full with air when they ’re in panic mode .

So what is happening ?

Well , as you could see in the video , pufferfish inflate by gulp water chop-chop into their stomachs . This inflates theirextremely elastic skinand get their spikes to stand up on ending . They then render and stay inflated for long enough for the piranha to lose involvement in eating them .

For a long while , scientists think that puffer were " hold their breath " when they did this ( just like inFinding Nemo ) , due to their gills being hindered . Some specie of blowfish even attend like their gills have entirely go away when they are inflated .

However , in 2014 , researcher at James Cook University and the Australian Institute of Marine Sciencefound thatpufferfish continue to take in oxygen through their gill when amplify .

Whilst they are out of the water , they can fill their stomachs with air , which may have conduce to the misconception . However , if they ’re out of the water , they are apace suffocate and have much large problems to deal with than learn you interesting   facts about puffer .

One more coolheaded fact about pufferfish before we go : dolphin have been filmed   using them to getrecreationally high with their toxins .

dolphin softly chew on the puffer to get them to release their toxins , which have a euphoric effect on them . They have even been observed doing a " puffer pass , " accept a chew on a pufferfish   beforepassing it to another dolphin .